New Program Allows Principals In Nevada District To Use iPads To Evaluate Teachers

The Reno (NV) Gazette-Journal (9/30, Perea) reports, "If you walk down the hallway or into a classroom of a Lyon County School, you're liable to encounter the principal with an Apple iPad in his hand," which, as a part of a new district program, "allows principals to evaluate teachers and give them immediate feedback on what he observed while visiting their classrooms." According to the Gazette-Journal, "Lyon County School District policy requires principals to spend at least an hour a day in classrooms to observe and evaluate teachers, and according to Scott Lommori, the District's Director of Testing & Educational Technology, the new iPad program allows them to fill out the evaluation form and upload information immediately, giving the teacher immediate feedback into what they are doing right or wrong."